December 28, 2005
What is Aldo Leopold saying, and what is his message?
By Alan L. Maki
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By Alan L. Maki
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?A clean, healthy, and safe environment for ourselves and our children water you can drink and air you can breathe. Polluters pay for the damage they cause.? --- Policy Directions vs. Specific Policy for progressives, ?Don?t Think of an Elephant Know Your Values and Frame the Debate? by George Lakoff
As part of a question for a final exam in a nature writing class, we were asked to comment on Aldo Leopold?s work. Two paragraphs from his Sand County Almanac [the book containing the writing is, ?Nature Writing,? Finch and Elder; College Edition (page 384)], the particular paragraphs
?The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively the land.
This sounds simple do we not already sing our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave? Yes, but just what and whom do we love? Certainly not the soil, which we are sending helter-skelter downriver. Certainly not the plants, of which we exterminate whole communities without batting an eye. Certainly not the animals, of which we have already extirpated many of the largest and most beautiful species. A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteration, management, and use of these ?resources,? but it does affirm their right to continued existence, and, at least in spots, their continued existence in a natural state.?
I am presenting my essay in the spirit of creating dialogue and discussion and I look forward to your comments, questions, and suggestions.
?The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively the land.
This sounds simple do we not already sing our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave? Yes, but just what and whom do we love? Certainly not the soil, which we are sending helter-skelter downriver. Certainly not the plants, of which we exterminate whole communities without batting an eye. Certainly not the animals, of which we have already extirpated many of the largest and most beautiful species. A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteration, management, and use of these ?resources,? but it does affirm their right to continued existence, and, at least in spots, their continued existence in a natural state.?
I am presenting my essay in the spirit of creating dialogue and discussion and I look forward to your comments, questions, and suggestions.
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